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Anesthetic Management of Equine Head Trauma A Case Report
Author(s) -
LEBLANC PATRICK H.,
BRUNSON DAVID B.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
veterinary surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.652
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1532-950X
pISSN - 0161-3499
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-950x.1986.tb00225.x
Subject(s) - medicine , thiamylal , anesthesia , halothane , malacia , surgery , horse , intracranial pressure , anesthetic , perioperative , paleontology , airway , biology
A fractured frontal bone in an 8‐year‐old Arabian gelding was repaired surgically. The horse exhibited no detectable neurologic deficits before surgery. Anesthesia was induced with a combination of guaifenesin and sodium thiamylal and maintained on halothane in oxygen. Postoperatively, the neurologic status of the horse deteriorated, and it died. On postmortem examination, intracranial hemorrhage accompanied by pressure‐induced malacia of the adjacent brain parenchyma was discovered. The hemorrhage was not associated with the surgical site. The authors hypothesize that increased intracranial pressure occurred in the perioperative period.